On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:20:05AM +0100, Douglas F. Calvert wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 5.97-5.3 > Severity: normal > > The list of acceptable colorizable (not-a-word) terminals in dircolors.h is > very limited. It does not recognize xterm-256color which is a termcap > available in > ncurses-term. Why can't dircolors test tput colors for something greater than > 8?
That's because it's hardcoded (aka "broken by design"). It doesn't use termcap or terminfo, only _works_ for the most common terminal types. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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